Display device for vehicle

1. A display device for a vehicle, comprising:

a self-luminous indicator which has a display screen with a plurality of pixels;

an image information storage unit for storing image information for setting the gradation of each of the plurality of pixels by which a given display pattern is displayed;

a display time measuring unit that is adapted to measure a display time of the self-luminous indicator that indicates an index to a deterioration of a part of the display screen;

a brightness deterioration amount estimating unit that is adapted to estimate an amount of brightness deterioration of each of the plurality of pixels on the basis of the display time measured by the display time measurement unit;

a first display control unit that displays the image information on the display screen to form the given display pattern with a brightness corresponding to an initial gradation which is lower than a gradation to be set for the image information; and

a second display control unit that displays the image information on the display screen to form the given display pattern with a correction gradation, which is obtained by correction from the initial gradation to a higher gradation toward the gradation set for the image information, according to the amount of brightness deterioration estimated by the brightness deterioration amount estimating unit; wherein

the brightness of each of the plurality of pixels is corrected based on a single display time for each of the plurality of pixels.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the initial gradation is a gradation level which is lower than a gradation set by the image information within a warranty period of the display device.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a temperature measuring unit that measures the temperature of the self-luminous indicator, wherein

the brightness deterioration amount estimating unit corrects the display time from the relationship between the temperature measured by the temperature measuring unit and the life of the self-luminous indicator and estimates the amount of brightness deterioration of the self-luminous indicator on the basis of the corrected display time.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the image information has a first display portion fixedly displaying the given display pattern, and a second display portion which is formed in a different region from the first display portion and has lower brightness than the first display portion, and

the second display control unit translucently combines the image information with transmissive image information in which a portion corresponding to the first display portion has certain transparency so as to have the correction gradation and displays the combined image on the self-luminous indicator.

5. A display device for a vehicle, comprising:

a self-luminous indicator which has a display screen with a plurality of pixels;

an image information storage unit for storing image information for setting the gradation of each of the plurality of pixels by which a given display pattern is displayed;

a display time measuring unit that is adapted to measure a display time of the self-luminous indicator that indicates an index to a deterioration of a part of the display screen;

a brightness deterioration amount estimating unit that is adapted to estimate an amount of brightness deterioration of each of the plurality of pixels on the basis of the display time measured by the display time measurement unit;

a first display control unit that displays the image information on the display screen to form the given display pattern with a brightness corresponding to an initial gradation which is lower than a gradation to be set for the image information; and

a second display control unit that displays the image information on the display screen to form the given display pattern with a correction gradation, which is obtained by correction from the initial gradation to a higher gradation toward the gradation set for the image information, according to the amount of brightness deterioration estimated by the brightness deterioration amount estimating unit;

wherein the brightness of each of the plurality of pixels is corrected based on a single display time for each of the plurality of pixels, and

wherein the given display pattern indicates that a predetermined area of the display screen illuminates with an approximately constant actual brightness on the self-luminous indicator.

6. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein

the initial gradation is a gradation level which is lower than a gradation set by the image information within a warranty period of the display device.

7. The display device according to claim 5 , further comprising:

a temperature measuring unit that measures the temperature of the self-luminous indicator, wherein

the brightness deterioration amount estimating unit corrects the display time from the relationship between the temperature measured by the temperature measuring unit and the life of the self-luminous indicator and estimates the amount of brightness deterioration of the self-luminous indicator on the basis of the corrected display time.

8. The display device according to claim 5 , wherein

the image information has a first display portion fixedly displaying the given display pattern, and a second display portion which is formed in a different region from the first display portion and has lower brightness than the first display portion, and

the second display control unit translucently combines the image information with transmissive image information in which a portion corresponding to the first display portion has certain transparency so as to have the correction gradation and displays the combined image on the self-luminous indicator.